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Standards Are Important

May 1, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 4 Comments

Introduction For nearly twenty years, the community of people working on disability related issues involving technology have worked very hard to create a set of standards, guidelines and best practices for accessibility. This article intends to explore the history of why the rich set of standards we now have available to developers had to be… Read more about Standards Are Important

Filed Under: Personal Essay, Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Standards, universal design, WAI/Aria, WCAG

Testing Android: A Deaf-Blind Perspective

January 17, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 6 Comments

[Editor’s note: This guest post was written by my new friend Scott. He’s a deaf-blind technology consumer who uses computational devices via a braille interface alone. He is also an adaptive technology instructor teaching those who are deaf-blind, and a member of the AppleVis editorial Team. This post is written purely from the perspective of… Read more about Testing Android: A Deaf-Blind Perspective

Filed Under: Guest Post, Technology Review Tagged With: Accessibility, Android, Braille, deaf-blind, failure, iOS, universal design, Windows

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